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Static lung volumes and airway resistance reference values in healthy adults

Beate Koch1, Nele Friedrich, Henry Völzke

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine B, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany. beate.koch@uni-greifswald.de

Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)
|January 3, 2013
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